oh hey cool

they can't keep getting away with this

kleeder...

ambient major lets goo

Pro Tip: Star Bars

AT LEAST!

I was waiting for this battle!
Thank kleeder! o(>ω<)o

This will be a good time to try out TIAtune!

wanna bump this one again, in case someone doesn't feel like getting the channelf sleizsa trio to work locally, there's the online option
https://battleofthebits.com/academy/GroupThread/44968/Channel+F+SleizsaTrio+Converter+online/

ambient on the most ear piercing systems, fantastic!

i am intrigued but i don't know if i know how to do this

me neither!!! ill find out soon when i start an entry

I'm gonna have fun with this :3

How tf am I supposed to get an Atari to sound ambient

that's the challenge ;)

why

why not

missed oppulortunity to put ambientia chip

( no chan f isnt real, beepy fibes never)

the worlds most hyperspecific battol? fun

Cover art so sexy, it's making me nervous…Does my hair look stupid right now?

Don't worry, VirtualMan, it makes all of our hairs look stupid.

is less than a week of voting enough for the entries or do we need an extra week?
I think I won't do a result stream, only chat results.

if someone needs a voting extension, just let me know :D

Voted.

great battle guys

im glad that kleeder was given major battle hosting privileges so that they could farm points off of complete dogshit like this

fuck now she's gonna make it to level 33 before me

^ if you don't like the battle theme, you can simply look away, you know? There always been also more obscure battles in BOTB and it's the salt and pepper of site in my view. Would have been certainly cool to see more entries, but not all the battles necessarily need to be several hundred entry mega-battles either (in my humble view)

I thought this battle was stupid too

Then I tried to make something for it and realized it was awesome actually

Also it was double booked with spring tracks and the end of dd2 voting, it was never gonna be big

thanks a lot for your constructive criticism and feedback, ordinate.
im glad that you were given comment writing privileges so that i can read dogshit like this.

i think you have a wrong understanding about monthlies and major battle hosting, so let me update you on this.


i dont have major battle hosting privileges, and noone else except for puke7 does.

the way monthlies are handled are like this:

first, we have a Future Battles battle, where everyone can submit any idea they have.
then, botbrs vote on the submissions and rank them in categories. one of them is "want", which indicates how much someone wants to see the battle.
for example: this battle idea ranked 12th out of 73 submissions.

after Future Battles is over, the botb elderz (that includes admins but a few other people as well, including me) will compile a list out of the entries, sorted by "want".
any of the botb elderz can then pick battle ideas they are interested in hosting. usually, only the upper half of the list is taken into serious consideration here.

when that is done, i sit down and create a battle schedule for the year, which is then posted into the elderz-chat and checked by everyone else in there. we also have ongoing updates through the year, because some battles extend or some get moved to another month.

last step is to tell puke7 to set up the battle, which also comes with yet another check.

you see, we have several instances of checking hosted battles before they go live. first, its up to the community which ideas are even posted. then a community decision, which ideas shld get prioritized, then an admin and elderz decision, which battles end up in the schedule, and a puke7 decision to actually approve and set up the battle.

you make it sound like i just sat down on an evening and felt like creating this without thinking further about it.


next, it seems like you think i will farm a lot of points with this. hostist points for major battles work the same as xhb hosting points: by amount of submitted entries.
in terms of hosting points, this one is equivalent to a 6 entry OHB. it would be a lot more effective to host a few allgear ohbs and i would have hundreds more points than what i earn from this one.
reward points for scoring high are handed out depending on the total entry count as well in major battles, so a 6 entry major will give barely any points, even if you score high, compared to something like summer or winter chip. again, easier to host OHBs if i want to farm points.


and at last, i am wondering why you have a problem with specifically this battle, because you could have also said the same about childs days hosted by roz (8 entries) and game night hosted by prestune (4 entries).
as warlord already pointed out, you can simply ignore this battle if you dont like the theme/rules. you dont even have to be salty about it blocking something you wld enjoy, because this battle didnt replace another. if we wouldnt have hosted this battle, there would have been none instead.
and even though there are only 6 entries submitted by 5 botbrs, at least those 5 botbrs had fun with what they did, so that is a win in my book.

yes, we were debating if this battle shld take place at this specific time. we already moved it a little into the future, to make sure the overlap between several voting and entry periods is smaller.
in the end, we ended up with multiple people saying it will be okay to get this one going.

with the high amount of Future Battle requests and a stacked schedule like this, not every battle has to be for everyone and/or a big success.

maybe we could have gotten a handful more entries at a different time, or maybe not.
after all, this idea ranked 12th out of 73 in "want", people clearly voted it high and showed interest in it. if we would only host battles where we know beforehand if they perform well or not, we would probably only do winter, spring, summer and advent.

i thought it was a good battle idea fwiw

i don't get the negativity honestly

fwiw, here's my thoughts:

I can kinda understand feeling critical of this major but comments such as Ordinate's are wholly unnecessary, and even destructive towards that end. In my opinion, I think this major was somewhat doomed from the start-- It's asking for a specific style with two chips that are notoriously difficult from what I can gather. It placed decently high on "want", 12/73, but half the proposed chips were removed before hosting? That doesn't seem good for the overall volume of potential entries.

The much larger problem, though, is the major overcrowding going on. Between the now double extension on dd2 voting, the spring trax entry extension, and other majors such as Intro Cutscenes coming and going, it's gonna be/ has been really hard to convince anyone to actually participate in this major. I'm sure puke, dami, kleeder, and everyone else involved in the admin team is aware of this. They aren't dense. The solution is not to shit on kleeder, as satisfying as it may feel in the moment to leave a snarky comment, I know damn well that feeling hollows out pretty quickly because it doesn't actually DO anything.

TLDR - This major is super narrow and hard and out-crowded on the site by other majors, which sucks, but there's not a lot that could/ can be done about it. Oh well, don't be a bitch about it.

Hi Matt, the admins are conscious of major overcrowding, and we have something of a palate-cleanser prepared which I think you and many other BotBrs will find quite refreshing.

^ that sounds exciting!

"It placed decently high on "want", 12/73, but half the proposed chips were removed before hosting? That doesn't seem good for the overall volume of potential entries."

Yeah, I found this odd as well. I'm not familiar with the ted format, but I definitely would've tried to make something for zxbeep...

thats a valid thing to criticize.

the suggested formats for future battles are sometimes adjusted before the battle is hosted. most of the time, we pick one format because monthlies are usually meant to be "single format challenges". also to keep them smaller on purpose compared to a seasonal thats running alongside it.

this one would have also been single format but because the cover art shows tia and channelf pretty clearly, we agreed on making it 2 formats instead.

thats definitely something we can reconsider and discuss in the team though (for future monthlies).


to hopefully close this discussion, i would like to say: we host up to 20 major battles every year. we try to make the schedule as diverse as possible, by adding more common formats, more rare formats and different classes. so that theres something for everyone. naturally, this also means that not every battle is for everyone. and sometimes it also means that some ideas dont get as much interest as others.